I’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold.
EARTHA KITTThis is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it’s a part of live entertainment.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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You don’t move just because you want to go from this point to that point – the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.
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I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don’t have anything against that.
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I love to tease men with my legs.
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I don’t wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I’m asked, I will answer honestly.
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The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it’s going to go and where you’ll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don’t let anyone deter you from that.
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Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
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I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.
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When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody’s business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
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When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.
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I don’t think I ever really got interested in theater.
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I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me ‘yellow gal.’ I was caught in between both sides – nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.
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